Michael A Peters wrote:
On Thu, 2007-02-15 at 15:50 +0000, Andy Green wrote:
Michael A Peters wrote:
LVM allows easy resizing of partitions, something you can not safely do
with ext2 partitions without LVM. LVM avoids the need to completely back
up and restore a drive because the average user was not psychic enough
to know how things should be laid out to be space efficient 2 years post
install.
LVM allows you to leave lots of unused space so that you can use it
where you need it when you need it without having to fuss with mount
points and figuring out how to make the mount points integrate most
effectively into your file system.
This is true, but it's a curious thing: these cures are for diseases
caused by fragmenting the storage space into fixed closed
partition-subworlds in the first place. You can get the same joy in
your life by just having a single fully sized / partition and none of
this complex stuff piled upon constricting stuff delivering nothing
going on.
Unfortunately there is no way to do a clean install while preserving
some data if it is all one partition.
"No way?" I didn't try it, but booting to runlevel 1 and rm -rf /usr
/boot before booting into the installation media for the "clean" install
of FC(n+1) should get you to the same place. Without having to chafe on
pointless restrictions and a huge workaround software stack between you
and your storage during the 9 months between needing to do that.
Are there any other reasons to have partitions and LVM on boxes with one
storage device and no possibility for internal expansion?
-Andy
